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I still love Windows — the ecosystem, the compatibility, and the way a well‑tuned PC can do everything from full‑blast gaming to quiet desktop work — but there’s a growing, justifiable frustration among longtime users about five recurring design and policy choices that make an otherwise powerful...

Winhance puts a surprisingly powerful, free, open‑source control panel on top of Windows 10 and 11 that lets you remove preinstalled apps, silence in‑OS ads and suggestions, tune privacy and services, and apply visual and taskbar customizations — all from a single, searchable interface...

Windows 11 ships with more than a few convenience features — it also ships with built‑in telemetry, targeted recommendations, and advertising‑oriented behaviours that are enabled by default. Paul Thurrott’s “De‑Enshittify Windows 11” thesis is blunt: Microsoft’s defaults push users toward more...

Windows 11’s telemetry plumbing runs deeper than most users expect, and one built‑in service — the Connected User Experiences and Telemetry service (known internally as DiagTrack) — is often the main conduit for background diagnostic and usage data. Disabling that single service is a quick...

Windows 11 still ships with a surprising number of user-hostile defaults in 2026 — nudges, upsells, telemetry switches, and contextual recommendations that behave more like commercial prompts than neutral system settings. If you value privacy, performance, or a distraction-free desktop, a short...

Windows now ships with a broad set of background services, scheduled tasks, and account-linked features that together create a steady stream of diagnostic, usage and personalization data flowing off consumer devices — and if any of the dozen settings flagged by the Technobezz write‑up remain...

Microsoft has pushed Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18912 (20H1) to the Fast ring, a modest mid-cycle flight that centers on a small but thoughtful accessibility improvement for Narrator while delivering a broad set of bug fixes and a handful of known issues Insiders should be aware of...